Trade Liberalisation and Export Performance in Selected Developing Countries

Amelia Santos-Paulino

Studies in Economics from School of Economics, University of Kent

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of trade liberalisation on export growth for a sample of developing economies using the export demand function approach. The research applies dynamic panel data models based on fixed-effects and generalised methods of moments (GMM) estimators. In addition, heterogeneous panels for the complete sample, as well as for different regions, are estimated using a time-series/cross-section technique. The main findings are that exports react negatively to an increase in relative prices, and positively to world income growth. Furthermore, export duties have a detrimental effect on export growth, though the impact is relatively small, while trade liberalisation emerges as a significant positive determinant of export performance.

Keywords: trade liberalisation; export growth; dynamic panel data; time-series/cross-section; developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 E21 F13 F14 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-11
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